Bishops Issue Warning on Schools' Clinics

The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are distributing pamphlets
addressed to "the youth of our country'' exhorting them to "say 'No' to
premarital sexual activity.''

The bishops' brochure is based on a statement they adopted last
November in which they opposed school-based health clinics that
distribute contraceptives and provide abortion counseling. In the new
document, the prelates dispute five "claims'' they say are made by
supporters of such clinics:

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